“To my knowledge, Israel's legal and often illegal enforcement of the Jews' alleged God-given right to a piece of land is unique. But if not, as I said above, I'd object exactly as strongly to a "black" state or a "Christian" state or a "Muslim" state.”
“To my knowledge, Israel's legal and often illegal enforcement of the Jews' alleged God-given right to a piece of land is unique. But if not, as I said above, I'd object exactly as strongly to a "black" state or a "Christian" state or a "Muslim" state.”
The Crusades were EXACTLY about a religion’s God-given claims to the holy lands. Religion was used as a “justification” taming the “savages” and “infidels” of all the places conquered and colonized by the Christian and Islamic worlds. Religions were the umbrella political system that united pfeifdoms, sheikdoms, tribes, etc., prior the to the development of political nation states as we know them today.
More specific to Israel/Palestine (and applicable to India/Pakistan), this is exactly the Arab Islamist claim to the land—and 1,300+ years later written in Hamas’ charter. I believe it’s called the “ummah,” and it basically states that any land conquered by Islam can never be given up or surrendered to non-Muslims. The Islamic Empire was a conquering and colonizing force that originated in the Hijaz (Saudi Arabia post WWI colonialism). They didn’t build the pyramids of Giza or the Roman aqueducts and amphitheaters in the Levant. The didn’t build the Byzantine church that became the Hagia Sofia Mosque in Istanbul (which was once Constantinople).
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“To my knowledge, Israel's legal and often illegal enforcement of the Jews' alleged God-given right to a piece of land is unique. But if not, as I said above, I'd object exactly as strongly to a "black" state or a "Christian" state or a "Muslim" state.”
The Crusades were EXACTLY about a religion’s God-given claims to the holy lands. Religion was used as a “justification” taming the “savages” and “infidels” of all the places conquered and colonized by the Christian and Islamic worlds. Religions were the umbrella political system that united pfeifdoms, sheikdoms, tribes, etc., prior the to the development of political nation states as we know them today.
More specific to Israel/Palestine (and applicable to India/Pakistan), this is exactly the Arab Islamist claim to the land—and 1,300+ years later written in Hamas’ charter. I believe it’s called the “ummah,” and it basically states that any land conquered by Islam can never be given up or surrendered to non-Muslims. The Islamic Empire was a conquering and colonizing force that originated in the Hijaz (Saudi Arabia post WWI colonialism). They didn’t build the pyramids of Giza or the Roman aqueducts and amphitheaters in the Levant. The didn’t build the Byzantine church that became the Hagia Sofia Mosque in Istanbul (which was once Constantinople).